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• Cholesterol A Basic Introduction
  Are you concerned because of statistics that suggest high cholesterol may be bad for you? Worried because you or someone you know has been diagnosed with having high levels of “bad” cholesterol?
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• Understanding Cholesterol
  When you eat saturated foods such as dairy, meat and eggs your cholesterol elevates. On the other hand when you eat foods such as fruits, vegetables, and grains you can maintain optimal health as they do not contain cholesterol.
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• Understanding the Types of Cholesterol
  While most people talk about “cholesterol levels” there is in fact more than one type of cholesterol. In fact, there are several different body functions and several different substances that make up our understanding of “cholesterol.”
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• Understanding How Cholesterol Works
  Cholesterol is a pliable substance that is attached to the fats and all of the cells that flow throughout the body.
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• Your Arteries and Cholesterol
  Each are made up of epithelial cells. The middle layer is elastic and very strong. It helps pump the body's blood. The inner layer is smooth and allows the blood to flow easily. As the heart beats, the arteries expand and are filled with blood. The heart relaxes and produces enough force to push the blood through.
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• Eating for Lower Cholesterol
  Eating is one of the things that can affect your cholesterol level a great deal. If you have too high cholesterol, the foods you eat can be one of the things you can control to most effectively and quickly lower your cholesterol.
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• Children and Cholesterol
  Nothing could be further from the truth. More children today suffer from high cholesterol. In fact, the numbers of children who are taking cholesterol drugs is on the rise! Some studies have suggested that a childhood of poor eating choices can contribute to higher cholesterol later in life.
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• Two Big Secrets
  Although we may know which foods we should be turning to and which lifestyle changes we need to make, we don’t always do what is right.
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• Shop for Lower Cholesterol
  The many foods and choices available to us when we shop should make it easier to choose healthy items that we enjoy and are good for us, but often the opposite is true.
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• Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs and Treatments
  Considering alternative remedies gives those dealing with higher levels of cholesterol new options. It is especially good for those who do not react well to traditional pharmaceutical cholesterol-lowering medications.
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• Good News on Lowering Cholesterol
  In the future, medical research being done now may provide more effective solutions to elevated cholesterol levels. In the meantime, however, there are a number of ways you can use today’s newest products and innovations to lower your cholesterol.
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• How Changes in Your Lifestyle can Affect Cholesterol
  Eating differently and getting doctor-supervised cholesterol treatment will help lower your cholesterol. However, to stay heart healthy and or lower your cholesterol in the next thirty days, you will need to make some changes to your way of life in order to reap the maximum benefits.
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• Your Doctor, Your Cholesterol, and You
  If you want to lower your bad cholesterol in the next thirty days and experience a lifetime of good health, you need to work effectively with health care professionals, including your doctor, nurses, pharmacists, and (possibly) nutritionists, dieticians, holistic practitioners, and lipid specialists.
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• Myths About Cholesterol that May be Affecting Your Health
  There are many myths out there about cholesterol. If you believe any of the following misconceptions and misinformation, you may be making uninformed choices that can sabotage your chances of lowering your cholesterol
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• Low Cholesterol Diet
  A low cholesterol diet is an important part to living a healthy and active life. A low cholesterol diet should mean more then just eating healthy.
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• Being Aware of the Dangers of a High Cholesterol Level
  Although there are "good" cholesterol levels, known as HDL, they only account for a third of your cholesterol levels. The other two thirds of your cholesterol levels are attributed to "bad" cholesterol levels, or LDL.
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• Staying Healthy - How to Check Your Cholesterol Levels
  It should be noted that factors such as your body weight, age, health, and other medicines that you are taking will play an important role in your cholesterol level readings.
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• The Multiple Benefits of Low Cholesterol
  It has long been speculated that cholesterol can in fact be good for you. In some ways, cholesterol is beneficial, and in fact is a must to help regulate the fatty plaque found in arteries from building up.
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• Making Healthy Eating Better
  Studies also often show that North Americans eat far less fresh fruits and vegetables than they should eat, a fact that has often been suggested as a key cause for the higher cholesterol levels and heart disease levels - not to mention the higher rates of obesity - that North Americans face.
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• Cooking and Cholesterol
  If you want to lower your cholesterol over the next 30 days, avoid all fast-food, convenience, and prepackaged meals.
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• Learn to Read Labels
  Food labels are something you will have to pay attention to when you go shopping. Manufacturers of foods in North America are required to provide accurate information about their food products.
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• Simplify Your Shopping Cart
  Many of us don’t have a lot of time to do food shopping. With our other responsibilities and our crammed schedules, we don’t usually have the time to research our food well before we buy, and our very shopping trips may feel rushed.
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• Shopping Cheat Sheet
  When you go shopping, take the following list along with you to prompt you to make good food choices
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• Other remedies believed to help reduce LDL cholesterol include
  Your doctor may be able to recommend a natural health practitioner, as this field gains increasing credibility in the medical world. However, you may need to seek out a natural or holistic specialist yourself
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• Pharmaceutical Medicines and Treatments for Cholesterol
  If after a number of months these diet and lifestyle changes have not lowered your cholesterol sufficiently, though, your doctor may suggest more aggressive treatment, which may include cholesterol-lowering medication.
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• Doctor Question Checklist
  There are certain questions that you need to have answered about your condition over the next 30 days. Whether you get the answers to these questions from your doctor or from another reputable health care professional,
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• Good Cholesterol Resources
  There are a number of places you will want to check in order to find more help with lowering your cholesterol.
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• Cholesterol Glossary
  As you lower your cholesterol over the next thirty days, you will likely encounter new words and terms. As you get used to these new concepts, feel free to turn to this glossary to help you recall what is what
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• Summary
  By now, you understand what cholesterol is and what you need to do to keep your cholesterol level healthy and your heart in good condition. There is a lot of information in this web site, and that is why you will want to take the time to look over parts of it again to refresh your memory and to get more ideas for lowering your cholesterol.
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